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Teufel Amor

Sinfonischer Hymnos nach Schiller
für Orchester
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"Of Schiller's poem 'Teufel Amor', only a minute, yet tremendously poetic and musical fragment has survived. The two lines 'Süßer Amor, verweile / Im melodischen Flug' gave wings to my imagination: The image of Cupid's flight as ups and downs of a melody inspired me to write a symphonic hymn which sings of love. Even love in its diabolical form. More than anything else love is always both: heaven and hell, desire and suffering, paradise and snakepit." (Jörg Widmann)
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After the rejection of his drama Fiesco in Mannheim, Schiller offered his poem Teufel Amor to a bookseller in Frankfurt for 25 guilders. As the bookseller only offered him 18 guilders for the poem, '[Schiller] preferred to remain destitute rather than wasting his poetry on a skinflint who was unappreciative of his artistry' (Gustav Schwab) and took his poem away with him. Only a tiny scrap of this poem has survived – albeit an exceedingly poetic and also musical fragment:

Süßer Amor, verweile / Im melodischen Flug
[Sweet Amor, remain in melodic flight]

A movement as a state of being, and a state of being as movement: an apparently contradictory pair, just like the title of the poem, Teufel Amor. Love however contains more contradictions than anything else in the world, epitomising the extremes of heaven and hell, pleasure and suffering, paradise and [ ]snake-pit. Whoever has been touched by the arrow of love is at the same time a human wounded by an arrow. My imagination was fired by Schiller’s fragment; his conception of the flight of Amor as the heights and depths of a melodic progression inspired me to compose a symphonic hymnos which praises the marvels of love – even in its devilish incarnation. Jörg Widmann

Orchestral Cast

2 (beide auch Picc.) · 2 (beide auch Lotosfl.) · 3 (2. auch Bassklar., 3. auch Kb.-Klar.) · 2 (2. auch Kfg.) - 4 · 2 (beide auch hohe Trp.) · 3 · 1 - P. S. (I: Glsp. · Röhrengl. [e', f', as'] · 3 Beck. [h./m./t.] · chin. Beck. · Beckenpaar · 3 Tamt. [h./m./t.] · gr. Tr. · 2 Bong. · 2 hohe, brasil. Tamborims [ohne Schellen, unterschiedlich hoch] · 3 Tomt. [h./m./t.] · Vibra-Slap · Peitsche; II: Vibr. · Crot. · 3 Beck. [h./m./t.] · chin. Beck. · Beckenpaar · Buckelgongs [D, Es, E, A, B] · 3 Tamt. [h./m./t.] · Water-Tamt. · 3 Plattengl. [E, a, b] · gr. Tr. · 2 Bong. · 2 hohe, brasil. Tamborims [ohne Schellen, unterschiedlich hoch] · Tomt. [t.] · Clav. · 5 Woodbl. · Flex. · Peitsche) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. · Cel. (auch Flex.) - Str. (16 · 14 · 12 · 10 · 8 [5.-8. mit 5. Saite H])

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Title:
Teufel Amor
Sinfonischer Hymnos nach Schiller
für Orchester
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2009 (2011)
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
April 13, 2012 · Wien (A)
Konzerthaus
Conductor: Antonio Pappano · Wiener Philharmoniker

Commissioned work :
Auftragswerk der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, des Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, der KölnMusik GmbH und Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Technical Details

Product number:
LS 5272-01
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

Performances

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  • Teufel Amor
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
    February 7, 2019 | Paris (France) , Philharmonie
    20:30
  • Teufel Amor
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
    February 6, 2019 | Paris (France) , Philharmonie
    20:30
  • Teufel Amor
    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
    June 7, 2015 | Berlin (Germany) , Philharmonie
    20:00
  • Teufel Amor
    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
    June 6, 2015 | Berlin (Germany) , Philharmonie
    19:00
  • Teufel Amor
    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
    June 5, 2015 | Berlin (Germany) , Philharmonie
    20:00
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